Although plenty of the 2023 new movie releases have had a rough time at the box office, Barbie isn’t one of them. A little over a month after arriving in theaters, it’s become the second movie this year to cross $1 billion, following The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and in the process it surpassed fellow Warner Bros. Picture flick The Dark Knight as the studio’s highest-grossing domestic release. Well, now Barbie is set to break another huge WB record, and additionally, it looks like the plan for the movie’s home release has finally been unveiled.
Starting with that first point, as reported by Deadline, Barbie’s worldwide total currently stands at around $1.340 billion, which is just $2 million shy of what Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 collected back in 2011. In other words, Barbie will soon surpass the box office total of the final chapter in The Boy Who Lived’s magical saga, and once that happens, it will become the highest-grossing Warner Bros. release of all time globally. So pretty soon, we can classify the Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling-led movie as the studio’s biggest success.
